Mourning day of China again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10975066

Besides the emergency event happened on the Yellow Sea that the US and South Korea held series of joint military drills, there was another severe accident actually drawn many Chinese’s hearts. That was the devastating landslide happened in Zhouqu county, Gansu province in NW China last week.

Now, after more than a week’s relief effort and statistics, the death toll has finally rose to 1239 people, still 505 are listed as missing. This serious disaster has brought much pain to the country. Since the situation is alleviating, in order to express the respect and sorrow about those lives who have lost, the government decided to hold one day as a national mourning day. And many media have reported this mourning day.

BBC news take “China holds day of mourning for Gansu landslide victims” as title, wrote a report about it. The report conveys the basic information about the condition China has suffered in this tragedy. It told us China closed all of its public entertainment and half-mast flags were performing by government offices and agencies. The left part of the media news was still about the relief effort itself. It quotes the official announcement to convince the hygiene and safety became the prior affair. It also reviews the history of this kind of mourning days in China. Three mourning days are involved. They are Zhouqu, Yushu, Wenchuan respectively. Along with the news, there is a picture showing the residents and rescue workers stopped moving, kept silent, were attending the memorial ceremony.

I thought there would be some special stories or different angles presented by BBC about this event. But I only saw BBC disappointed me by almost using all of the information directly came from Xinhua which is the state-run news agency of this sole biggest communists country of all the world.